Mississippi man who hid bodies in Russell Co. sentenced after death penalty voided

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A man whose death sentence was overturned in 2014 has been resentenced to life in prison.

Gillett photo Forrest Co. Mississippi Sheriff

State prison records show 44-year-old Roger Gillett was resentenced in July.

Gillett and then-girlfriend Lisa Jo Chamberlin were convicted of killing Gillett’s cousin and the cousin’s girlfriend in 2004 because they wouldn’t open a safe. Dismembered bodies of Vernon Hulett and Linda Heintzelman were found stuffed in a freezer on a farm near Russell, Kansas.